Personal Disaster Recovery: Backup, Don’t Archive!

Aside from malware/spyware and viruses, the biggest trouble with most home computers can probably be attributed to the build-up of user data over time. You’ve seen it happen over and over again: digital pictures, videos, documents, spreadsheets, and more fill up the drive and eventually adversely affect the performance of the computer.To help offload the data from the system, manufacturers have been producing low-cost storage solutions in the form of external hard drives, DVD burners and network-attached archival devices. Users with overburdened computers are flocking to their local electronics stores and buying these devices to back up their data and free up some hard drive space.

However, there’s another set of users: People who buy these devices and believe they are backing up their data for situations when their computer crashes, with the intention of restoring their critical files if needed.

The problem is that many do not backup their data correctly…

Source: Geeks are Sexy